The degradation of freedom

Terrance Moore was a classmate of “Mogadishu” Professor Nicholas de Genova at the University of Chicago. He is also a Marine veteran who served as a Lieutenant in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. In a new essay Moore profoundly meditates on de Genova then and now, contrasts college education with military training, and explores the true meaning of scholarship in a free society.
Moore asks: “Were we to put embedded reporters in the classrooms of our most prestigious colleges and universities, would we see a civilian education comparable to this rigorous military training, one that produces such heroic citizens? To what do the nation